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Navin Khadka
Navin Singh Khadka is a journalist with the BBC Nepali service and also writes for other portals including the BBC Science and Nature online. Apart from producing and presenting programs, he reports and conducts interviews. He has been a journalist for almost one-and-a-half decades and has worked with daily newspapers, magazines, radios, TVs and online over the years. He has a sustained interest in environment, with a focus on climate change vis-a-vis the Himalayan ecology as he comes from Nepal that showcases world’s eight highest peaks in the Himalayas.
Posts by Navin Khadka
Mountain Countries Compete to Voice Climate Concern
No commentsA race is on between Nepal and three other countries to register their respective groupings with the UN so that they can help to amplify the concerns of mountainous countries about climate change.
»Adaptation becomes hard to adapt in climate summit
No commentsOfficials and experts say negotiations on climate adaptation have become ever more complicated, leaving least developing badly frutrated as they badly need funds to cope with inevitable impacts of climate change .
»Secretary General requests Nepal to play positive role
No commentsAs the difference between develooped and developing countries deepen over who should make how much carbon cuts, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon requestes Nepalese Prime Minster Madhav Kumar Nepal to play positive role in negotiations.
»Climate Of Mistrust
No commentsWith economy — and not the environment – as the main agenda, Copenhagen summit deepens distrust between the north and the south.
»Fight to control Copenhagen climate change fund
No commentsDeveloping and developed countries cross swords over who should have the control over the fund to fight climate change. While the US is for WB taking up the managerial role and European countries are supporting existing agencies including bilateral ones, developing countries want the new fund under the authority of Conference of Parties.
»Nepalese prime minister admits climate negligence
No commentsEven as he heads the government of climatically one of the most vulnerable countries, Nepalese Prime Minister Madhab Kumar Nepal has admitted that Nepal had not been serious in terms of dealing with climat change. In a special interview with the BBC Nepali service, he said that because of lack of proper homework and an unstable politics, the Himalyan country was unable to raise and push its agenda in the climate summit.
»Will climate talks weather the storm?
No commentsAs negotiatiors of developing and developed worlds lock horns over how should the talks move ahead, focus will now shift to their political leaders who will soon begin to arrive. But will that make any difference?
»Developed countries accused of dividing developing ones
No commentsNegotiators from major economies accuse developed worlds of trying to divide them while the latter reject that. True or not, the allegation certainly exposes the widening distrust between the two.
»Climate negotiations hit by rough weather
Comments off(Radio report in Nepalese) Deepening distrust between developed and developing worlds gives Copenhagen climate summit a very bumpy beginning. A leaked proposal said to be prepared by the Danish government has angered the bloc of developing countries who believe it is basically a plot to scuttle the Kyoto process which many developed countries wish to get rid of.
»The Transparent Truth
No commentsFive hundred million people in South Asia and half of the people in China will be directly affected by water scarcity as a result of the retreat of Himalayan glaciers due to global warming.
One of the world’s leading climate change experts has said that South Asian countries and China are not doing enough to address the possible water scarcity that global environmental problems could create.
